Health minister Alistair Burt met with leaders from the optical sector earlier this month, stressing that high-street optical practices can be a force for reform.
Burt, minister of state for community and social care, agreed practices could help the NHS to deliver reforms set out in the Five Year Forward View.
He said eye care professionals were well positioned to play a wider role in transforming health delivery with other primary care professionals and could help reduce the pressure on GPs and hospital care, such as A&E.
Burt said: ‘There is no doubt that some of the best examples I have seen so far from the Vanguards sites are where they are getting other professions involved in delivering care in the community to support general practice.
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